It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it, and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams. : what has no meaning admits no explanation.

I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.

The good old Dominion, the blessed mother of us all.

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: (1) Those that fear and distrust people, and wish to draw all powers from them into the hand…

The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.

If we love God, then it requires us to hate idolatry. If we believe there is such a thing as goodness, then we must also recognise the presence of evil. If we …

Men who cannot believe in the mystery of our Saviour's redemption can believe that spirits from the dead have visited them in a stranger's parlour, because the…